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We been talking about Top 10 Hot Gadgets and Gizmos for this Holiday Season. Digital readers topped the listed and we did one seperate article talking about it. Last article covered the list from Top 2 -5 and this one will cover the rest in the list.

Hot Gadgets #6: Gaming Consoles

As many of you know, video games have come a long way from Pac man to PS3. If you’re a gamer, you’re spoiled for choice when it comes to Black Friday s neat deals at many stores. If you’re looking to pick up a cheap console next Friday, there are actually 5 good options starting from PS3 slim for $299 to Nintendo DS for less $100. Many stores plan to carry bundles of them bundled with exotic games. You can check out the consumersearch.com for more details and also go to blackfriday.com for gaming console deals.

Hot Gadgets – #7: GPS/Portal Navigation Systems

GPS has emerged in the consumer market few years ago. The market has matured and evolved remarkably in the last couple of years. Portable navigation device or GPS, today has more features than ever to help you get from point A to point B quickly and safely–features such as audible driving directions with text-to-speech (TTS), spoken street names, real-time traffic updates, Internet connectivity for points-of-interest search, and large easy-to-read screens, to name a few. It has also become cheaper to afford starting from $50 which has all the basic things to direct your route. You can check cnet again for the best gps for today’s life. Check out bfads.net for black friday deals on GPS.

Hot Gadget&Gizmos #8: Touch Screen&Smart Phones

Keeping tabs on the latest cell phone models can be a full-time job, especially given the number of cell phones announced by Apple, Palm, Nokia, and HTC (including, most recently, the BlackBerry-like T-Mobile Dash) over the past few months. Nothing beats a stylus and a touch screen for true on-the-go productivity. Check cnet for review on top 5 smart phones.

Hot Gadget&Gizmos #9: External Harddrives

A portable or external hard drive is quite a useful piece of equipment. It allows the user to back up or store important information separate from the main internal hard drive, which could become compromised by online or offline activities. Sensitive documents, large music files, DVD images, movies, disk images, and even a backup of the contents of your main internal hard drive, can all be kept securely and safely on an external hard drive. When you are online, you can even leave the external drive turned off. Check blackfriday.info for online sales.

Hot Gadget&Gizmos #10: zhu zhu Hamster

Last one a gadget/gizmo for kids. It is a most wanted Toy of this season, Zhu zhu Hampster.

It made news all over the nation and sold out in few days. It is out of stock in Toyrus website but Toysrus is promising for the first 100 shoppers in line at each store on Black friday will receive a ticket for the opportunity to purchase one of the season’s hottest toys – the Zhu Zhu Pets Hamster. The $10 toys are out of stock on the retailer’s Web site. But the company says thousands of additional Zhu Zhu Pets will become available in stores throughout Friday, with regular new arrivals through December.

A word of advice, don’t buy things you ain’t need them. It is like the saying “Don’t fix it if it ain’t broken”.  If you do plan to buy things you need for this holiday, do proper reasearch and plan properly for the purchase. Avoid impulse buying.

sources: pcworld.com, cnet.com, inquist.com

We started this series of articles with Blackfriday trends moved to list out 5 step strategy to get ready for Blackfriday and continued with a shopping plan. Yesterday we moved on to real meaty stuff talking about hot gizmos and gadgets which are currently attracting consumers in this holiday season. It is Digital Readers tops the list with new demand  from book readers. We will continue the list in this article and see more gadgets people are waiting to get hold of.

Hot Gadgets #2 : BluRay DVD Players

Blu-ray has been growing in popularity since around 2007. Both Blu-ray players and discs have substantially dropped in price since last year. This Black Friday will be the first time that many stores will be offering enticing deals on Blu-ray Players, and the first time we will see a Blu-ray player sold well under $100.

BD Live is a Blu-ray disc feature that brings content from the Internet to your Blu-ray movies. This has previously included games, downloadable features, quizzes, and movie trailers. Notable feature which you might want to check out on Blu Ray players is to connect to the Internet from your home and watch movies using Instant Streaming offered by Netflix and others. You can check buyers guide at bfads.net.

Hot Gadgets #3: High Definition TV’s

One of the most sought after items this Black Friday is high-definition televisions. High-Definition televisions are often on the list of big-ticket sales at many Black Friday retailers. A good television should hopefully last you for several years, so this is not a decision to rush into! Big discounts on these expensive sets can tempt you into a quick purchase, but do your homework beforehand and you’ll wind up with a great TV for a great price. Check out the buyers guide from CNET  to educate yourself before you hunt down for the right set.

You can also check out the comparison between Plasma and LCD at cnet.com, two different HDTV technlogy and decide which one suits your need. You can check the current Black Friday deals on HDTV at blackfriday.info. Deals ranging from $125 to $1000 according to the models.

Example:

Sansui 19″ LCD HDTV Model #: HDLCD1909 – $128.00
Samsung 40″ LCD 1080p HDTV Model #: LN40B500 – $597.99 

Hot Gadgets #4: Fully powered, Cheap Laptops and Netbooks

Black Friday deals on laptops are usually among the best values a shopper is likely to find. If you’re in the market for a laptop this year, you’ll probably see a lot of great offers on netbooks in particular. Not to be confused with a notebook, which is just another name for full-sized laptops, a netbook is basically the compact car of the laptop world. It’s smaller, it’s lighter, and it can get you where you want to go for a lot less money. The trade off is that netbooks generally pack less power and fewer features than their full-sized counterparts

Most netbooks do not have a CD/DVD drive, some come with non-Windows operating systems like Linux instead of the more common Windows XP or Windows 7. Netbooks often have less RAM, and a slower processor than full-sized notebooks. Most netbooks are intended for web-surfing and basic office work (Microsoft Word, Excel, etc). They usually carry enough hardware to handle these activities, but not much beyond that. You can learn more about netbooks at bfads.net buyers guide. Check out blackfriday.info for laptop deals for this holiday.

Hot Gadgets #5: Digital Cameras

It can be very confusing if you haven’t spent hours researching what each term means. To make your life easier, bfads.net has put together buyers guide to educate and enrich your information.

For this black friday, there are humpty number of deals out there for digital cameras starting for just $59.99 going to $569 and more. Check out the deals at blackfriday.info

Don’t forget to come back and check out the last five Hot Gizmo and Gadget Picks.

Content sources: cnet.com, msnbc.com, inquist.com, bfads.net
Photo sources: promoteyourself.com, letsgodigital.com

In the Black friday article series, we looked at trend of Black Friday, 5 step strategy and final shopping plan. This article and few other upcoming articles will feature hot gizmos and gadgets which many consumers are thinking about shopping this holiday season.

This holiday season is different in many ways and as I previously mentioned  Black friday sale is also going to be different. It might not have the same glitter and gloom like past but will still showcase some new products and will not fail to impress the gadget lovers who plan to hit the retailers door steps on the Black Friday or clog the internet on Cyber Monday.

Every year new gizmos and gadgets garland the holiday season to attracts and dominate the techno saavy consumers mind and make them go running on the sale days to wait for hours to buy them. In 2004, it was Free USB drives and Flash memories cards, Cheap digital cameras and camcorders in 2005, iphone and ipod’s in 2006, GPS and Ipods in 2007, HDTV’s, Wii’s in 2008.  This year also we will see some new products like eReaders, handy camcorders and many more to shake up the market. Obviously cheap laptop computers, netbooks and gaming consoles like Xbox, Wii will continue to interest many parents and younger generation this year too.

Store Openings
On Thanksgiving,
Walmart – Open for 24 hours Thanksgiving Day and BlackFriday
Gap – Open at 9 a.m.,
Banana Republic at 11 a.m.,
Old Navy at noon

On BlackFriday
Target – Opens at 5pm
Staples – Opens at 6pm
OfficeDepot – opens at 6pm
OfficeMax – Opens at 6pm
BestBuy – Opens at 6pm
Toys “R” Us – Opens 12am

Hot Gadget #1 – Digital Readers

Amazon Kindle

Amazon’s launched the Kindle reader on Nov 2007. It took the amazon few years to spread the fire and get more consumer attention in the market. Economy melt down is part to blame.  Currently, it captured the interests of college students and young adults and becoming one among must to have gadgets. Witnessed the growth of the users pool, many manufactures like Sony and competitors like Barnes and Noble are on the roll with their own products to get piece of the pie.

Kindle (Global Wireless)	Kindle DX (U.S. Wireless)
Display	6″ diagonal E Ink®	9.7″ diagonal E Ink®
Size	8″ x 5.3″ x 0.36″	10.4″ x 7.2″ x 0.38″
Storage	1,500 books	3,500 books
Books in Under 60 Seconds
3G Wireless
Wireless Coverage	Global	U.S.
Text-to-Speech
Whispersync
Rotating Display

Sony Reader Touch – PRS600

The Sony Reader^™ provides a new way to experience reading. Take your library on-the-go and access your favorite books from anywhere. For added versatility, the Reader supports multiple file formats including ePub and PDF, offering access to more books from more places, including over one million free public domain titles from Google books.

Benefits of the Reader Digital Book

• It’s Portable — It’s lightweight and easily fits in a purse or jacket pocket.
• Long Battery Life — Enjoy up to two full weeks of reading on a single battery charge.
• Large Capacity — Holds up to 350 books with 512MB of onboard memory.
• E Ink^® Vizplex^™ Screen — Provides easy, natural reading from a paper-like display.
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